What does it mean to be an icon? Nowadays, people throw around the word as loosely as an Instagram comment. If you ask Famke Janssen, star of the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye , icon status is a mindset. “This is how I've lived my entire life," Janssen tells me over Zoom. "I do things before I even know if I'm ready to do them. Just go for broke and throw myself in head first. See if I survive and come out okay on the other side." After three decades in the film industry, it's worked out great so far.

In GoldenEye —which celebrates its 30th anniversary this month—Janssen debuted as an original Bond girl named Xenia Onatopp. (Pun very much intended.) You may remember her as the villain who squeezes her rivals to death with her thighs. "When I saw the name of my character, Xeni

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